Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan (7 September 1950-) was an American conservative author, Wall Street Journal columnist, and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan.

Biography
Peggy Noonan was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1950, and she went to high school in Rutherford, New Jersey. She worked as a CBS Radio commentary writer for Dan Rather during the 1970s, and she became a WEEI Radio newswriter in 1975 and then an adjunct journalism professor at New York University in 1978. During Ronald Reagan's presidential administration, she served as a special assistant and speechwriter at the White House, writing a speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Pointe du Hoc on 6 June 1984, Reagan's address to the nation following the Challenger disaster, a tribute speech to John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes" speech from the 1988 presidential election. Noonan went on to become a Wall Street Journal columnist, and she campaigned for George W. Bush's re-election in 2004, opposed Sarah Palin's 2008 vice-presidential candidacy, and supported Mitt Romney in 2012.